Cantina Valle Isarco Südtirol - Alto Adige DOC Weissburgunder (Pinot Bianco) 2023

94 POINTS: Wine Direct Tasting Team

"Intense straw yellow. Complex nose, yellow stone fruit, white flowers & lemon zest. Precise and tense on the palate, starts juicy, then lots of mouthwatering refreshing acidity, lingering juicy-spicy finish."
- Wine Direct Tasting Team

Given its peculiar climatic and exposure requirements, Pinot Bianco grows only in the warmer areas of the lower Valle Isarco where the sunny hillside soils rich in porphyry (hard red stones) generate a powerful white wine.

Valle Isarco lies at a point in northernmost Italy where glaciers meet the gentle rolling hills of the Mediterranean. It’s a region, within Italy’s Alto-Adige, characterised by a wine tradition that span back to 500BC. But while its wine tradition may be historic, it also defined by the personality of its contemporary growers who, thanks to a wide variety in soils, in cultivation areas and sunlight exposures – as well as in the microclimates of specific vineyards, allow each vineyard to develop and thrive within its own character. Steep terraced vineyards call for year-round dedication and can, in many cases, require solely hand tending, so it’s no wonder the spirit of each family of winemakers is so at one with its vineyard.